Improvement in drawing-knife



JOHN HfAT-WATER, OF OSH'IEMO, MICHIGAN.l

Lem Patent No. 98,903, dated January 1s, i870.

IMPROVEMENT lIN DRAWING-KNIFE.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

Toall whom it may concern Be it known that I, J oHN H. ATWATER, of Oshtcrno, in the county of Kalamazoo, in the I,St-ate of Michigan, have invented, a new and improved-Drawing-Knife; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being ing the right-hand handle into the lefthand, and inversely.

had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon- Figures I and V representing side views;

Figure II, a cross-section;

Figure III, a plan; and

Figure IV showing the blade.

My invention consists of a blade, A, sharpened in different bevels, as shownby the cross-section, Fig. II.

Thereis a prolongation on each end, provided with four projections, B, 0,1), and E,vand connected at the extremities by hinge-joints, with two handles, F and G. 'Ihese arey allowed to swing through an angle of' one hundredrand eighty degrees, but are hindered by the projections B, C, I), andl E, from surpassing this angle. v

VThus the extreme positions are'represented in Figs. I and V The object of this, my invention, is to furnish a drawing-knife, which willdispense with the use of two or more knives where dierent bevels are wanted.

The blade being properly sharpened, this knife containsffour different bevels, all-of which may be` used either by Vreversing the knife in the hinges, or by pass- As this knife will be, if at all, but a tride'rnore expensive than others, it presents the double advantage of economy and of greater simplicity.

What I clairn as my invention, and desire to se- Y cure by Letters Patent, is

A drawing-knife, composed of the blade A, sharpened in different bevels, and furnished at both ends with prolongations, H Ihwhich are joined by hinges to the handles.V

Also, the projections-B, C, D, and E, for preventing the handles from closing too far. l

J VHN H. ATWATER. Witnesses:

O. O. A'rwATnn, J. J. ATWATER. 

